Who knew that recommendation engines could be funny? This made me laugh out loud.
Go to the Philips Norelco BG2020 Men’s Bodygroom page at Amazon.com and take a look at the “Customers who bought this item also bought” section:
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(Mondo thanks to Miss Fipi Lele for the link. I cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
One of the fun parts of my job at Tucows is coming up with interesting technology demonstrations. Here’s one called the Duke of URL, a little web app that suggests up to 100 available domain names based on a word or phrase that you provide it. You can either visit the Duke of URL page and enter your own word or phrase, or see what the Duke suggests for the following:
The Duke is written in PHP (PHP 5, but it’s compatible with PHP 4) and makes use of Tucows’ OpenSRS API for provisioning and managing domain names. I wrote it to showcase the NAME SUGGEST API call that was recently added to OpenSRS and to demonstrate one possible use. Over the next few weeks, I plan to post the code along with explanatory notes as well as upgrade the Duke to some other possible applications, including mash-ups, over at the Tucows Blog.
If you use the Duke and find a domain name you’d like to buy but don’t know how to order one, drop me a line and I’ll give you a hand.
C’mon, what tech but Global Nerdy site would even come up with a graph like this?
That’s from our article that takes a shot at Kathy “Creating Passionate Users” Sierra’s nonsense entry on the term “Web 2.0”. We’ve also got pieces on the Beatles’ exclusive deal with iTunes store, and Andy Ihnatko’s scathing review of the Zune.
I don’t have to worry about it for a couple of years, but when my brother-in-law (a.k.a. “brother from another mother”) Andy graduates from law school, I might give him one of these to hang in his office:
It’s a poster by Todd Goldman, whose works you might have seen before — he’s the “Boys are stupid – throws rocks at them!” artist. I took the photo outside an art shop at the Fashion Show Mall in Vegas.
Tonight marks yet another Ruby on Rails Pub Nite, the monthly gathering when some of Accordion City’s brightest lights in the software development sphere gather together to hang out, enjoy some beers and burgers and chat about Ruby on Rails as well as life in general. It’s falling distance from the office and the Ginger Ninja’s away on a business, so I plan on being there tonight.
The event takes place at The Rhino (1249 Queen Street West, a couple of blocks west of Dufferin) and starts at about 7. Organizer Pete Forde writes:
At this point there is a core group of about twenty folks that come out regularly; we expect about fifteen heads per outing. The Rhino affectionately refers to us as “their nerds”.
We often receive emails from people that wonder if they know enough about Rails to come. The answer is that if you know what Rails is, you should come. At the very least, we can answer your questions and get you even more excited.
If you’ve got the time this evening, come on down!
I don’t watch The Maury Povich Show, but it seems that every promo ad for the show features a paternity test…
